Insects mentioned in this poem include "the cricket on the hearth" and "the bee with honeyed thigh that at her flowery work doth sing."The speaker invokes a goddess whom "bright-haired Vesta long of yore, to solitary Saturn bore," and concludes by telling her, "I with thee will choose to live." It begins, "Hence vain deluding joys, the brood of folly without father bred," and later instructs the r
Insects mentioned in this poem include "the cricket on the hearth" and "the bee with honeyed thigh that at her flowery work doth sing."The speaker invokes a goddess whom "bright-haired Vesta long of yore, to solitary Saturn bore," and concludes by telling her, "I with thee will choose to live." It begins, "Hence vain deluding joys, the brood of folly without father bred," and later instructs the reader to "hail divinest Melancholy." For 10 points, name this melancholic poem by John Milton, the companion piece to "L'Allegro."
Insects mentioned in this poem include "the cricket on the hearth" and "the bee with honeyed thigh that at her flowery work doth sing."The speaker invokes a goddess whom "bright-haired Vesta long of yore, to solitary Saturn bore," and concludes by telling her, "I with thee will choose to live.
“{Il Penseroso}”